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April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Your silence may be doing more harm than good. An Evolving Definition.

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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. Her dual-role leadership made a tremendous impact on strategy and performance. Focus on the Why.

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9 Ways to Challenge Your Assumptions

Lead Change Blog

Would the finance person agree that your investment will generate acceptable returns? We can fall into a pattern of operating within the same set of assumptions over and over because we continually see things with the same perspective. Bring outsiders into a brainstorming session. 2) Force fresh perspective. 6) Expand time.

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Action Questions

CO2

The situations I asked about were operations, finance, staffing, marketing, strategy, town hall meetings, one on ones etc. I had worked with one of the best leadership training guru I know and the guy who helped developed the Wilson Learning Styles Model and Covey’s 360 to come up with an assessment model based on my research.

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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. Whenever we are stalled in an area of ministry, I like to invite different voices to brainstorm and develop new ideas. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . They are just “normal”. . New people always bring new capacity.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. But the Council was not the typical think tank for brainstorming ideas.